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The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-03-04
A BAD METHOD.

The law under which our taxes
are assessed and collected is so
framed as to work hardship to the
taxpayer. The amount assessable
and collectable is not now complain
ed of as excessive. Our taxes are
comparatively light, and provided
they are expended for the public
good, there can be no reasonable
ground of complaint. But there are
points in the method of levying and
collecting which are certainly objec-
tionable in the highest degree, and
should. be amended.
The assessor values your pro-
perty, real and personal, and makes
an entry in his books accordingly.
You are kept in perfect ignorance as
to the amount of the assessment.
Your own estimate of value may be
accepted, or it may be doubled for
anything you know to the contrary.
When the assessments are all made
and the books in order, they are left
open to inspection for a short time,
Of which brief notice is given to the
public, and an opportunity allowed
for appeals from the assessors yalu-
alton.
This all looks very we'll, or that
portion of it respecting inspection
and appeal. But practically it is
very unsatisfactory. As matter
Of fact, the opportunity Of inspec-
tion is more circumscribed than ap-
pears; for Il man may 60 sometimes
within the specified period and
during the prescribed hours, without
seeing the books, as the writer can
testify from experience. Then the
taxpayers are notified by poster or
otherwise, that their taxes are pay
able at certain place within GER
tain period, and that after the ex-
piration of specified time something
additional will be put on.
This is our method Of assessing
and collecting taxes. The tax
payers receive no bill, and no
notification of the amount of their
taxes, or Of their being taxed at all.
If they are strangers In the country
and not familiar with the custom,
they may render themselves liable
to be pounced upon by an officer of
the law, and compelled to pay their
taxes, with the additional percent
age, and they know not what for.
A stranger may, for instance, have a
bank deposit, which is taxed, justly
enough. But the depositor, know
ing nothing Of it, does not go to the
tax office to make payment. He is
ultimately called upon by a police
man, and required to pay the amount
originally assessed, with the addi-
tional percentage. This is not a
far-fetched, imaginary contingency.
1t is stern fact, and several cases
OF recent occurrence might be
quoted.
The serious defect of this arrange
ment, of which Taxpayers reason
ably and justly complain, is, that
they are not furnished with a bill or
statement of the amonnt OF their
taxes. 1t ought to be the duty of
the assessor or collector to furnish
such statement. 1t is done in other
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-03-04

Petroleum has been discovered in
Linlithgowshire, Scotland, In work.
able quantities, in its natural state
the first "find" of the sort in
Great Britain.
Tie subject of the fall in value
of the Russian rouble and the fall
ing off in Russian trade is attract
ing serious attention in the st.
Petersburg Press.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-03-04
the HANDLING OF BRICKS.

Some things in this country are
quite up with the times, and others
are a long way behind. Some OF
our methods are those Of advanced
civilization, and others belong to the
ancient days. In some things prob
ably greater countries might initiate
us for their good, and in others we
might follow them for our own
advantage. On the present occa-
sion, one particular matter is men
toned, in which, by initiating the ex-
ample of almost every civilized coun-
try under the sun, we should be in
the line of improvement. 1t is in
the matter Of handling bricks.
Until of late we have known but
little practically Of this class OF
building material. Wood has been
our favorite article. Perhaps be-
cause of its intimate relationship to
the upper regions of our great men.
Our buildings were generally con-
structed of wood, and imported
wood, at that. Considering the
superabundance of it in the govern
ment, this may have been entirely
unnecessary. But it was imported
all the same, and those engaged in
the trade have apparently found it a
profitable one. When an occasional
change from the orthodox material
was made by a builder, he usually
res0rted to coral, and some buildings
were constructed of coral. OF late
years, and particularly since our
great fire of nearly year ago,
bricks have come into vogue. Wood
is not altogether dispensed with,
either as building material or for the
composition of legislatures or cabinet
ministers but most of our prominent
business structures that have been
erected of late, are constructed OF
brick. This is partly due to ''fire
limits" law, prohibiting the use of
infammable material within GER
tain prescribed area, and partly to
the ievel-headedness of those for
whom the buildings have been erect
ed; because brick buildings have
gone up where wood was allowable
by law. Well, bricks have become
quite familiar to the eyes of all who
walk around the streets, and to the
hands of many. This is our brick
age. If the government had kept
up with private enterprise, it could
have been said of the public men of
the realm, "they are BRICKS" which
in miners parlance is about the
highest compliment one man can
pay another.
But the point we wish to come at
is this, that the men who have the
handling of house-bricks in this
country do not know how TO do it;
or, if they know, their actions are
not according to their knowledge.
In other countries bricks are hand
led carefully, passed along from one
man to another, and stacked in solid
heaps. Seldom is brick broken or
damaged. Here they are dashed
out of ship on the wharf, and
badly damaged as they are landed.
Then they are thrown into drays
just as roughly, conveyed to the site
where intended to be used, pitched
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-03-04
COSM DRAMA!

A LARGE NUMBER OF BEAUTI-
"A ful pictures from all parts of tie
world arranged for exhibition through
strong lenses under a powerful lieht,
will Ike opened at the building known
rs me Astor House, on Hotel Street, on
" WEDNESDAY EVENING, March 2nd,
1857, at $50 p. m, and will remain open
from I'LL p. M, and 1880 daily.
Admission 20 cents. Special rates for
schools. 73lw
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countries. Why should it not be
done here? No business man en-
poets payment until his debtors get
their accounts. Why should the
Government expect more!
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-03-04
Mortgages Notice Of Sale.
DEFAULT HAS BEEN

w HEREAS DEFAULT HAS BEEN
w made in The condition of that
certain Mortgage made by Conchee &
Ahung TO Lyman Brothers, dated De-
cember 10, 1885, and recorded in Liber
y6, pages 44l TO 44G, and Ioticc Of in
tcntion TO fOrcclose The same has been
duly given. Now, therefore, in accord
ance with the power of sale in said
Mortgage contained and by oder Of
said Mortgages, ! will sell at Public
Auction, at my salcsrooms in Honolulu,
on
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Terms, $1,000 Season.

APTOS CHIEF, bay stallion, by
Speculation; he by Kysdyk's Handle.
tonian, out OF Martha Washington, by
Burr's Washington; her dam by Abdal
lab. LIST dam by Lady Pool, by Skagg's
II ttler; her dam by Glencoe. The
above stallion was raised by Sir Claus
Spreckels.
For further particulars enquire at the
FASHION STABLES, or of II. HUS-
TACE, at Ilustacc d Robertson's Office
Queen Street. 72lm
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-03-04
APT0S CHIEF
Al.

This fine Young trolting red stallion
will stnud th, coming season at Dodd's
Stables, KapioImi Park, to n limited
number of mares
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-03-04
Valuable Real Property!
AT AUCTION.

by order of the Executors of the Will
of Rev. ID. BALDWIN, deceased, we
will sell at Public Auction,
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-03-04
On Saturday, March 5, 1887,

At l2 o'clock noon, Mt our Salcsroom,
Queen Street, the following
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-13
SETTINGS OF CITY NEWS.
LITTLE GOSSIP FROM THE STREET
AND SIDEWALK.

Dashes Here and There by the News
Reporters - Yesterdays Happenings
Told in Brief Paragraphs-Pickings at
Police Headquarters.
There was only one arrest yesterday, and
1t was simple case of disorderly conduct
The Hebrew Benevolent Society will hold
its annual meeting tonight and will elect
officers.
Ancient Landmark Lodge, f. A. NJ, will
hold its annual meeting tonight and Will
elect officers for next year.
The Southern Mutual Loan Association
will hold its seventeenth monthly meeting
Of series B at Metropolitan Hall tonight.
There were 23S failures in the United
States reported to BrddStreetS last week,
against 2S5 in the preceding week, and 2O9,
pa BOG and 246 in the corresponding weeks
of 1886, 1885, 1884 and 1888 respectively.
The Rural Resort railroad was moving
very briskly yesterday in spite of the in
junction which it was reported would be
applied for before Judge Pardee. Up to a
late hour last night nothing had been done
to disturb the new enterprise.
Rev. DR.. ]. E. L. Holmes will deliver an
illustrated lecture on Palestine at Yonge's
Park Hall tonight. After the lecture re-
freshments will be served The proceeds of
Tile lecture ana entertainment VIII 20 TO Une
Duffy Street Baptist church fund.
The Mayor had a regular Monday morn
ing docket awaiting him yesterday morn
ing, and he disposed of the offenders with
promptness and dispatch. There were thir-
teen cases of disorderly conduct before him,
and the aggregate fines amounted to 800.
Rev. Neander Wood preached to large
congregation at the Independent Presby-
terrain Sunday school room last night Mr..
Wood is an eloquent and forcible speaker
and his sermon last night was one calcu-
lated to leave a lasting impression upon
those who heard it,
George Clark and Thomas Davis were up
before the Mayor yesterday morning on
charge of disorderly conduct in refusing to
move from the corner of West Broad and
Bryan streets when ordered to do so by
policeman McQuade Sunday evening The
officer was breaking up game of Sunday
football which was going on, and the boys
got so mad and raised such a noise that they
attracted crowd, and he had TO dis
perse them. He ordered Clark and Davis to
leave, but they refused to do so, and he took
them in. Davis was fined So, but Clarks
case was continued
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-13
HE "BURGLED" A BARN,
And Went to Jail to Await the Grand
JurY's Pleasure.

And Went to Jail to Await the Grand
Jury's Pleasure.
Daniel Brown, colored laborer on the
Schley place just west of the city on the
Augusta road, was committed to Jail by
Justice Naughtin yesterday for burglary.
Brown has been in Mr.. Schley's employ for
several years. His employer has suspected
for some time that Brown was helping him
self to whatever he wanted without asking
for it. Several things had been missed, and
suspicion pointed so strongly TO Brown that
Mr.. Schley determined to find out if he
was as guilty as circumstances said he was.
A harness was one of the things missing
from the place, and lit was taken from a
barn where Brown frequently went. Sun
day night a trap was set for the thief, who
ever he might be-not a steel trap, but a
man trap. A pile of barrels was built up
inside the barn door where the thief would
go in, and Waterman stood inside the
barn. About 0 O'Clock Brown showed up
As soon as he got inside the door he knocked
down the pile of barrels and the Waterman
collared him.
Brown said he wasn't going to steal any
thing, but he failed to make a satisfactory
explanation of his presence there He was
brought into the city and taken to the bar
racks. A warrant was sworn out before JUS
tice Naughtin, and Constable Basch took
his man to Jail, where he will await the ac-
ton OF the grand jury,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-13
THE LATE DIR. G. j. ORR.
Savannah Teachers to Take Suitable
Action in Regard to His Death.

Savannah Teachers to Take Suitable
Action in Regard to His Death.
The death of State School Commissioner
Orr, announced in yesterdays MORNING
NEWS, is deeply felt by the teachers in
Savannah who knew him, and there are
few who did not. During the fifteen years
that he was State Commissioner DR.. Orr be-
came personally known to nearly every
teacher in the State, and to many of the
older teachers he was known long before he
became State Commissioner. He was
III every way the teachers best
friend AS chairman of committee raised
in 1869 by The Georgia Teachers Associa-
ton, he prepared a report in favor of COM
mon schools for Georgia, which was unani-
mously adopted by that body, published
and widely distributed.
In 1871 he headed committee and pre-
sented memorial to the Legislature on the
same subject. These papers place him in
the front rank of the advocates Of common
schools
His report of 1869 was made the basis of
the first common school law. At the re-
quest of Hon. W. NJ. Reese, he framed the
school law of Aug. %, 1872. 1t. to large
extent, created system. The system, as
created, removed education from the arena
of politics, and placed character, intelli
gence and experience in control. 1t pro-
vided machinery which combined great
working power with unusual simplicity.
The Savannah Normal Glass will meet at
O'Clock Friday afternoon and will pass
suitable resolutions upon the death of Dr.
Orr. There are already number of can
didates in the field for the office, and Savan-
nah is understood to have a name on the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-13
RESIDENTS BARRED OUT.
The Guards Club Repeats the Rule Ad
hitting Resident Visitors.

The Savannah Volunteer Guards held a
meeting last night and abolished the rule
permitting residents of the city to visit the
club rooms three times. This rule has been
in operation ever since the club was estab-
lished, and was adopted in order to permit
the people of the city to see the armory,
but that purpose having been accomplished,
the rule has been repealed, and in the fu-
ture only members and non-residents will
be permitted in the club rooms.
A movement was inaugarated which will,
if carried out prove of inestimable benefit
to the military organizations of the coun-
try. In his last annual report the Adjutant
General of the United States Army sug-
gested the ACCESSIBILITY of appointing army
officers to be located in the various sections
of the country to instruct the volunteer
forces in military science. The Guards
adopted resolution approving the sugges-
ton and urging that the military organiza-
tions of Georgia unite with them in re-
questing the Senators and Representatives
from this State to favor such legislation as
may be necessary to carry the suggestion
into effect.
1t is thought that if officers from the
regular army would begin instructing the
volunteer corps it would arouse a
higher degree of enthusiasm than can be
excited by any other means, and the result
will he not only that the various military
bodies will become more efficient than they
have been but that they will become much
stronger,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-13
A PAPAL NOMINATION.
Rt. Rev. Leo Haid Made Vicar Apps.
tolic of North Carolina.

Rt. Rev. Leo Haid Made Vicar Apes
tolic of North Carolina.
The Rt. Rev. Leo Haid. who is announced
to lecture here ON the occasion of the Pope's
Jubilee Concert on Dec. %, has been nomi-
mated Vicar Apostolic proper of North
Carolina.
When Bishop Northrop was consecrated
Bishop of Charleston, North Carolina was
left without a Vicar Apostolic. Bishop
Northrop then acted as administrator to
North Carolina until a Vicar Apostolic
should be nominated. The nomination has
been made by the Pope, whose choice, as
has been mentioned, fell upon the Rt. Rev.
Leo Haid. He was consecrated Abbot of st.
Marys College, in North Carolina, on
Thanksgiving Day at the Cathedral chapel
in Charleston by Bishop Northrop in 1897.
Abbot Leo Had, previous to his
Vincent's College,. in Pennsylvania, the
largest institution under the direction of
the Benedictine Fathers. Here, also, he
taught the higher branches of tine English
language. His merits, piety and indomita-
BILE energy in administering the duties of
his position won for him the high esteem of
the members of his order and it was be-
cause the Benedictines wished to make st,
Mary's College in North Carolina one of the
first of the excellent institutions under the
supervision of their order that they selected
Abbot Haid.
On the day of his arrival at st. Mary's
College complete change began. The
number of applicants was so large that a
new and more capacious building had to be
constructed. This was soon done, and while
year ago the number of students did not
exceed forty, now it exceeds a hundred. All
this was owing to the zeal and energy of
the Rev. Abbot. His ability in directing,
and his prudence i'll acting, has recommend
ed him to the Pope and the position of
Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina could
not be filled by more worthy person to
succeed the admirable administrator, the
Rt. Rev. Northrop.
Rev Father Had, as he has been known
here, is very popular with the Savannah
Catholics. 1t may be that his recent ap-
pointment will prevent his coming on Dec.
2S, but his friends hope that it will not.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-13
We Cut From the Start.

Many merchants get all they can for their
goods during the height Of the season and
rely on alleged low prices to work off the
surplus stock on the eve of a new season.
We think differently. We make it a rule
to try and sell our goods lCith the season,
being satisfied with a continual small profit
i'll preference to high-priced "spurt" and
then big stock to carry over at the end of
the season. In other words, we put the
lowest living prices on our stock from the
start, and do not trust to luck or below
cost" sale-that hoary-headed old chestnut
to work off what is left SO much for the
wedge. Now for the maui to drive Our
arguments in.
Our stock has been augmented by our
holiday selections, comprising special gar
ments, Suits, Overcoats, Neckwear, Silk
Handkerchlefs and Furnishings for the gala
season; many novelties, all gems of the
manufacturers good taste. We have a
pretty line of Prince Albert Suits, not only
the well-known blacks and blues, but in
mixed goods Also dashing line of four
button Cutaway Suits. In short, our entire
stock indicates the merchant tailor rather
than the ready-made dealer, without the
merchant tailor price. The Big Golden
Arm. SIMON MITCHELL.
159 Broughton street.
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PUSHING THEIR CLAIMS.
MAI. VESTS CONSTRUCTION COM
PANY IN A BAD WAY.

Officers Gather in More of It's Property
"A Lively Fight over the Contract
ors' Camps in Bryan and Bulloch
Counties - The Contest to End in the
Courts.
The Savannah, Dublin and Western, and
Birmingham and Atlantic A ir-Line, and
United States Construction and Improve
ment Companies affairs are in something of
middle and are likely to be for some time.
The Construction Company and its credi-
tors seem to be the worst off.
Justice Molina started Officer Endres out
late yesterday afternoon with another at
tachment for $3.50, to get possession of
some of the company's property on the road
west of the city.
Messrs. Charlton & Mackail, who repre-
sent Carpenter, Grant, Mundy g. Co.'s in
terest, were busy yesterday getting things
in shape to interpose their claims and secure
possession of the property held under at
tachment and foreclosure by the Sheriffs of
Bryan and Bulloch counties.
THE CREDITORS INTERESTS.
Thomas H. Potter, ESQ of Bulloch county,
who is interested in the case, was in the
city in the evening in conference with Will
liam Clifton, ESQ, who is looking after the
interests of number of the contractors
creditors along the line of the road. Messrs.
Carpenter, Grant and Mundy, have spent
a good deal of money in building
the road for the construction company, and
they have got nothing for their work.
Their country creditors and the sub
contractors along the road began to get
uneasy, and proceedings were instituted
H. %l,.H. b.
secure payment of their claims. Some of
the contractors property was mortgaged to
their creditors. Before all of it was fas-
tened Messrs. Charlton and Mackall, repre-
senting the contractors interests, started
out a Deputy Marshal to seize the firms
property in Bryan and Bulloch counties.
The object of this move was to get the case
into the United States Courts.
SEEING THE CAMPS.
Whatever property there was at the
Bryan county camp was already seized
under an attachment in the interest of the
firms creditors, and an officer was sent on
to the Bulloch county camp and took pos
session of the property there. On his return
to the Bryan camp he found that Deputy
Marshal Corbett had been there and had
attached the property and had left an officer
in charge. The Constable claimed the
property, however, under a former levy
and TOOK possession or IL.
Mr.. Lee, of Philadelphia, through whom
Carpenter, Grant & Mundy brought the
property South, will interpoSe his claim and
endeavor to secure possession of the property
in the Bryan camp The claims held by
Messrs. Clifton g. Potter amounts to about
$500.
5lIn the meanwhile the engineer are seeing
that the construction company's property is
locked up as fast as they can find out where
it is and can get at it.